(November 26, 2014 at 9:20 am)c172 Wrote: I had heard of this concept before, but forgotten about it. It's where the person in front of you pays for their own goods, and then yours, and then that can start a chain reaction of good will.
I was paid forward for the first time yesterday, at a Ralphs supermarket (chain store). About $40 worth of groceries.
I'm disabled, and usually fight tooth and nail against charity on me. So, I kind of lost my composure a bit. But then the young lady checking me through said that he's a Christian pastor, they know him well, and he does that all the time, and that it's called "Pay it forward".
In Florida, a man refused to participate in the PIF chain at a Starbucks, feeling like it wasn't spontaneous.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/man-deli...s-25088176
Looking back on it, he's potentially right. The first party in the chain gets the benefit of paying for another, and the very last gets the benefit of a free, or partially free order.
Any of you participated in this phenomenon yet? What do you think, if anything?
The preacher must feel guilty to do such a thing, but how does he know how much your bill will be? And how does the cashier deal with this?
